Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army turned down the New York City Police Department's plea that the return of former policemen be speeded, told the cops to wait their turn. In the U.S.S.R. they do things differently: Red Army generals took a look at the crime statistics presented to them by Moscow police officials, sent in a division of cavalry...
...Delco Radio in Kokomo. It was the same at the warehouses in Los Angeles and Denver, at 80 G.M. plants in more than 50 cities in 19 states. A button had been pushed in Detroit and 175,000 U.S. men & women laid down their tools. Reconversion would have to wait...
...highest priorities for admission will be given to those students who left Harvard to go to war and to those who hold certificates of admission but went into service before coming here. Veterans who have not previously attended or been admitted to Harvard will have to wait their turn; and the waiting list is long and growing much longer, Bender warned...
...Rumania is suffering from the worst drought in 50 years. . . . The average Norwegian must wait one full year before he can hope to have a new pair of shoes. Stockings are unobtainable. . . . The resistance of Europe is low. Tuberculosis is rife. The very young and the very old especially are beginning to die in droves as the autumn leaves fall...
...Before subscribing to the theory that there is a change in policy towards foreigners and foreign affairs, this correspondent would like to wait two or three years. . . . Call Moscow at the moment a limited paradise...